Improvement in necktie and collar combined



waited iut i @wat @Wina JAMESVARLEL OF UDSON, ASSIGNOR T() HIMSELF AN D l). M. ASMYTI-I,

oF ORANGE, NEW JERSEY.

Letters Patent No. 98,129, dated December 2l, 1869. Y

IMPROVEMENT IN NECKTIE .AND COLLAR COMBINED.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingpert of the same.

To all whom it'may concern Be it known that I, JAMES VARLEY, of the city and county of Hudson, and State of lNew Jersey,v

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Imitation Neckties for Shirt-Collars; andI do hereby declare that the followingjs va full and exact description thereof', reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification` I make use of a paper uecktie, out out in the proper sha-pe', and attached at one end to the band of a paper collar by an eyelet.

This mode of attachment allows the necktie to be turned down out ot' the way in buttoning ou the collar td the shirt, and also Vholds the tie properly to piace when it is turned up beneath the opposite. side of the They are cut with a knife, of suitable shape, from a continuons sheet or sheets of papel', or other suitable rou-termi, and may be swaged in dies of proper form to produce the raised imitation ot knot in the centre; also, to represent stitching or embroidery.

They are then made fast to that part of the collar as represented in Fig. B, with a metallic eyelet, upon which they maybe turned or adjusted for convenience of buttoning the collar on the neck-band, vwhen the imitation tie may beturned back into the fold ot' the down for allowing the collar to be buttoned or held up in place by said eye-let, when turned up beneath the collar, as set forth.

JAMES VARLEY.

Witnesses z WM. H. BISHOP, D. M. SMYTH. l 

